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“For us in the Black Belt region, shifting the power means taking control of our story. Shifting the power means claiming the story…At the end of the day, if our experiences aren’t part of the story then the story does not belong to us. We are the masters of our story. We must reclaim our story and make sure it is heard.”

Felecia Jones, Black Belt Community Foundation in Selma, Albama (U.S.) at the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy (Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2016) on shifting the power in the Deep South of the United States and on some of the very concrete steps the foundation has taken with the community to organize and create change.